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Many small businesses struggle with cash flow in the early years. One way to improve your cash flow is by factoring your debts.

When you factor your debts the factoring company gives you up to 85% of any outstanding invoices straight away. They also take the burden of collecting your debts away from you. For this service they charge around anywhere between one and three percent of the invoice value.

I used factoring in the late nineties when I was struggling to manage the growth of my packaging business. Some of my biggest customers were taking a long time to pay their invoices and as their business increased the only way I could raise money to keep supplying them was through factoring.

Bookkeeping is the process of maintaining records of various transactions of a business. The records include total revenue, gain, loss, expenses, dates of transactions, and many other details. Bookkeeping is the basis of accounting process and it is very important, no matter what business you are in.

There are several advantages of maintaining proper bookkeeping for small businesses. Basically, bookkeeping is legally required for every business. It helps business owners know the exact position of their business anytime they want. Details like gain or loss, the amount due to creditors, dates of transactions, and the amount due from debtors are critical in assessing financial position and bookkeeping helps a great deal in these things. Small businesses have to maintain bookkeeping to be legally and financially sound.

Business owners go to great lengths to select the ideal names for their business. They know that a name plays a key role in creating a first impression about the business, and is an important consideration in making that impression both positive and memorable.

There’s a visual first impression that’s every bit as important as the verbal message delivered by the name. A company’s logo is a unique symbol that identifies a business or other organization. It represents the business in advertising, on wearables, on signs, and in every other way the business connects with key stakeholders. As people become familiar with the logo, they associate it with the company’s characteristics.

Small businesses can often be beaten out by larger competitors simply because they have better practices than small businesses. The good news is that there are a number of practices that can translate to small businesses. These strategies and tactics are some of the best-kept secrets and can make a business much more successful in the long run.

The act of borrowing ideas from other companies is called best practice benchmarking and can lead to vast improvements in business structure if done properly. Since most small businesses have a much smaller budget than big businesses, the practices learned can save money and be even more beneficial for them than for the big companies. If a small business emulates another businesses way of cutting costs, they will be able to do in a shorter period of time.

Is this you? You have customers to satisfy, professional goals to deliver on and your personal goals shoved to the back burner… and you and your friends, colleagues, clients and vendors are already talking about ‘this’ year. Decisions aren’t getting made because too many of them feel like they’re all the top priority… and you find yourself with a task list that is incomplete, messages unreturned, and lists growing longer.

“HELP ME STAY ON TRACK!”

ENRON, WORLDCOM, IMCLONE, when the word fraud is mentioned these are the companies that come to mind for most people. What they don’t realize is that for all the money stolen in the frauds of these three companies, the amounts still pale in comparison to the amounts lost by businesses like yours every year. Statistics show that small businesses lose somewhere between 6 to 10 percent of their annual revenues due to fraud! (Some of the high ticket businesses losing as much as 20%.) Think for a moment of what keeping just one percent of your annual revenue from slipping away from you would mean. Most of these frauds can be prevented and it is much cheaper to prevent than to detect fraud that is already occurring.